Specs

yumi is an IBM x3650 (model/variant: 7979B3M)

• 2-way Xeon E5420 @ 2.50GHz
• 6gb DDR2-667 FB-DIMMs
• IBM ServeRAID 8k adapter (not the 8k-l, this has the 256mb battery-backed write cache and more complex raid levels available)
  • 6x 750gb SATA - WD7500AACS
  • RAID-10 for 2tb of usable storage
  • Provides sda2 as an LVM physical volume

  • Use arcconf to interact with it

• 2x gigabit ethernet (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708)

RSA

Remote management is through an RSA II Slimline card, it has it's own dedicated ethernet port.

You can talk to the RSA "in band", using the asu utility. Currently stashed in /root/ASU

• Dependent on the ibmasm service
• IBM are cocks, so of course there's only tarballs and RPMs for it
• That requires libusb and maybe something else

[root@yumi ASU]# ./asu64 rebootrsa

# if you forget the password:
[root@yumi ASU]# ./asu64 resetrsa

Default login is USERID // PASSW0RD (yes that's a zero in the password)

Certain crappiness is well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Remote_Supervisor_Adapter#Peculiarities

Forgotten password something-something:

• http://brain4free.org/wiki/doku.php/blog:reset_password_on_a_ibm_rsa_ii

• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wOY_UfBo4hsJ:www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa%3FthreadID%3D165997+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk

Here's the manual: asu_guide.pdf

Network config

./asu64 set RSA_Network1 Enabled
./asu64 set RSA_HostIPAddress1 202.4.232.66
./asu64 set RSA_HostIPSubnet1 255.255.255.0
./asu64 set RSA_GatewayIPAddress1
./asu64 set RSA_GatewayIPAddress1 202.4.232.254
./asu64 set RSA_DHCP1 Disabled
./asu64 rebootrsa